Worked a bunch this weekend trying to decommission an EC2 server (hosting App.net archives!) by moving millions of little files to S3. Taking forever, often failing. I’ve been maintaining this for years and really want to turn the page on it, but can’t accept losing any data.

@brianjesse Thanks! I often get replies from Mastodon followers. But we don’t show follower counts so I’m not sure how many people. 🙂 For RSS, this help page is probably a good place to start.

I can’t take Meta’s efforts at decentralization seriously while they don’t even have a usable API for posting to Facebook and Instagram. From Platformer:

Photos still rolling in every day for our March photo challenge. It’s fun to see some Mastodon posts in the mix too! Check out the grid view on the web for an overview of everything. Not too late to participate, follow @challenges for the prompt each day.

Looks like Mastodon will be getting expanded support for showing styles in posts. Micro.blog already sends bold, italics, and other basics to Mastodon, so this will be a nice improvement for folks reading in Mastodon.